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LIBBOHY (It CONGRESS 
Two ooDies Received 
SEP 8 1904 
^-.Cooyrtrtt Entry 

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SOUVENIR 

THIRTIETH ANNUAL CONVENTION 

AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION 

NEW YORK 

September 14th, 15th and i6th 
1904 



COMPLIMENTS 

THE NATIONAL BANK OF NORTH AMERICA 

NEW YORK 



COPYRIGHT, MCMIV 
NATIONAL BANK OP NORl H AMKRICA 




Sunset from the National Bank ot North America 



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The National Bank of North America from tlie Northwest. 




Manhattan Island from the Ruof of the National Bank of North America. 




The Canyon of Wall Street. 




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From Trinity Church to Brooklyn Bridge — C<jfiitniicJ 




Towers and Domes to the Westward. 





windows without Shadows. 




From Brooklyn Bridge to Governor's Island — Continue J. 




A Giant*s Causeway. 




From Governor's Island to Hudson River 




Exchange Place Canyon. 



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i iu' liiKincial District from tht Southwes:. 





Above the Millions. 




The Financial District trom the South. 




A Cavern without Sunlight — Beaver Street. 




The Financial District ixom the East. 




A Vista of Terra Firma. 



S!te of the Narioija! 




The Old Post Office in i860 (Built fag). Federal Hall in Wall Street (Built 1789). 



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Castle Garden in 1853 (Built 1S12). 



Fraunces Tavern in 19C4 (Built 1730). 



Dfficers' Rooms, 
Aisle and Foreign 
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North America, 
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The Financial District fium the Northeast. 




Exchange Place looking West, 




View from the Bruuklyn Bridge. 




Exchange Place looking East. 




The Roof Tops of the Financial District from the North. 




Crags and Canyons. 




The National Bank of North Amenta on the Left, 




The New York Stock Exchange. 




The Roof Tops of the Financial District from the South. 




New Street from Wall. 




The National Bank ot North America on the Right. 




South on William Street. 



THE few views shown here will serve as souvenirs to 
the members of the American Bankers' Association 
ot many others, more beautiful and strange, seen during 
their sojourn in New York City. 

This portion of the city with its towering structures, 
crowding each other on the narrow island, baffles the 
camera at a hundred points. Looking into great depths, up 
sheer wall into patches of sky, over roofs and towers at 




The New York Chamber of Commerce. 



nightfall, when darkness has engulfed all else, the eye of 
the camera becomes blind, or distorted. It gives to the 
vision what the camera never sees— the most unreal and 
the most real of all things, according to the extremity of 
its moods. 

From afir it appears white, terraced, the smoke and 
steam rising from its summit. Nearer it assumes a delicate 
texture; nearer still it seems fissured to its base, while, as 




The New York Clearing House. 



yet, the units of its structure are scarcely apparent. At 
length through the rifts are distinguished the currents of 
traffic, and one tries to grasp the facts— steel and masonry 
and fretwork which architecture employs to grace her lines. 
By night the scene is even less real. Threads of 
light and curtains with mesh of fire are hung against the 
sky. Clouds and steam wreaths have given way to elec- 
tricity and starlight. 




A Royal Gorge — Exchange Place looking West. 



NATIONAL BANK of 
NORTH AMERICA 

41-43 Wall Street, 43-45-47-49 Exchange Place 

NEW YORK 

INCORPORATED i S s ^ 

Capital, |2,ooo,ooo Surplus, ^2,000,000 
Deposits, $20,000,000 

OFFICERS 

RICHARD L. EDWARDS ALFRED H. CURTIS 

President Cusiier 

CHARLES W. MORSE J. FREDERICK SWEASY 

yice-Presidenl Aisistant Cailner 

HENRY CHAPIN, Jr. EDWARD B. WIRE 

Vice-Preiideiit Am slant Cashier 

United States, State and City Depositary 



TRAVELERS' LETTERS FOREIGN EXCHANGE 

OF CREDIT ISSUED BOUGHT AND SOLD 



DESIGNED. EN C; RAVED AND 

PRINTED BY THE FRANK 

PRESBREY CO., NEW \ORK 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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